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> I've often felt that French is overrepresented, particularly within international organizations like the #IOC.

I think that France was one of the first nations to realize that some things required supranational organizations. Add that to their colonial holdings in Africa and parts of the Americas (the Canadian province of Quebec isn't the only area that was French, either directly or as a refuge after French Canada was conquered) and they still appear over-represented, but not nearly as much.

There are (former?) Francophone areas in New Hampshire and Maine, for example. And Louisiana. Even places like eastern Missouri (St Louis, St Charles, Cape Girardeau).